NPO Humor TV

NPO Humor TV was a digital theme channel of the Netherlands Public Broadcasting dedicated to comedy, cabaret and satire. The channel started as Humor TV on 15 November 2006. On 10 March 2014, Humor TV 24 changed its name to NPO Humor TV.[1] By cuts in public broadcasting NPO Humor TV would stop broadcasting on 1 July 2016.[2]

NPO Humor TV
Launched15 November 2006
Closed1 July 2016
NetworkVARA
Owned byNPO
Picture format576i 16:9 (SDTV)
CountryNetherlands
Formerly calledHumor TV (2006-2009)
Humor TV 24 (2009-2014)
Sister channel(s)NPO 1
NPO 2
NPO 3
NPO 101
NPO Best
NPO Cultura
NPO Doc
NPO Nieuws
NPO Politiek
NPO Sport
NPO Zapp Xtra
Websitehumortv.vara.nl

Arise
Humor TV 24 logo used from 2009 until 2014.

Humor TV was founded on 15 November 2006. It began as an Internet channel of the former Nederland 4. It then was a channel owned by the VARA. After several years, they also started broadcasting via digital TV, where they also went broadcasting twenty-four hours a day, with which the name is changed in Humor TV 24. From that time there were also other broadcasters with more foreign and were there, most bought English from the BBC series. On 10 March 2014, the channel name changed to the current.[3]

Platforms

NPO Humor TV consists of different platforms:

  • The channel itself;
  • The temporary block on Nederland 3 called Humor TV presenteert...
  • The website humortv.vara.nl;
  • The channel's app

Broadcasts

The programming consists largely of reruns of satirical and cabaret programmes of VARA, BNN VPRO and NTR, but also entire cabaret programmes of comedians. It also airs recordings of cabaret festivals and movies of cabaret novice writers.

Programming schedule

The schedule looks like this:

Time Programming
00:00 to 03:00 Loop block previous day
03:00 to 09:00 Night and morning programming
09:00 to 12:00 Loop block previous day
12:00 to 18:00 Loop block previous day
18:00 to 24:00 New programming block

However, this creates a lot of repetition, especially in the night programming, which consists of a number of programmes from the previous days. The programming does not consist of regular programme at a regular time, but are randomized.

gollark: I might actually make that WASM CC-ish-but-not-really-it's-not-even-in-minecraft thing.
gollark: A nice but probably very unlikely feature is rednet/modem emulation.
gollark: It may not ever be. Who knows?
gollark: So "semi-Google" then. Bit weird.
gollark: It has a link to a google github thing.

References
  1. Jarco Kriek (12 February 2014). "NPO vernieuwt digitale themakanalen". TotaalTV.nl. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
  2. Jan-Hein Visser (23 November 2015). "Definitief einde NPO Doc over half jaar". TotaalTV.nl.
  3. Broadcastmagazine.nl - NPO themakanalen krijgen nieuwe naam
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